The Sutla () or Sotla () is a

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

flowing through

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and

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, mostly forming their border. It is a

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

to the

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, itself a tributary to the

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. It is long and has a watershed area of .

Overview

The Sutla flows through the following municipalities: *in Slovenia:

Rogatec Rogatec (; Suppan, Arnold. 1996. ''Jugoslawien und Österreich 1918–1938: Bilaterale Außenpolitik im Europäischen Umfeld.'' Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, p. 663.) is a small town in eastern Slovenia, on the border with Croatia. I ...

Rogaška Slatina Rogaška Slatina (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 248.) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the largest settlement in, and the s ...

Podčetrtek Podčetrtek ( or ; ) is a settlement in eastern Slovenia by the river Sotla. It is the seat of the Municipality of Podčetrtek. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. Name The ...

Bistrica ob Sotli Bistrica ob Sotli () is a settlement in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli. The settlement lies on a river terrace above the right bank of the Sutla, Sotla River. The area traditionally belonged to the region ...

Brežice Brežice (; ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain (), which is part of the larger Krka Flat (). The area w ...

*in Croatia:

Đurmanec Đurmanec is a village and a municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 4,235 inhabitants in the area, in the following naselja, settlements: * Donji Macelj, population 566 * Đurmanec, populat ...

Hum na Sutli Hum na Sutli () is a village and a municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County of Croatia. In the 2011 census, there were 5,060 inhabitants in the municipality, in the following settlements: * Brezno Gora, population 75 * Donje Brezno, populatio ...

Desinić Desinić is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to ...

Zagorska Sela Zagorska Sela is a village and a municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County, northern Croatia. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 996 inhabitants in the area, in the following naselja, settlements: * Bojačno, population 14 * Bratkovec, po ...

Klanjec Klanjec () is a small town in northwestern Croatia, in the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje on the border with Slovenia. History In the late 19th and early 20th century, Klanjec was a district capital in Varaždin County (former), Varaždin County of t ...

Kraljevec na Sutli Kraljevec na Sutli is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County, northern Croatia. In the 2011 census, there were a total of 1,727 inhabitants in the area, in the following naselja, settlements: * Draše, population 123 * Gornji Če ...

Brdovec Brdovec is a municipality in the Zagreb County, Croatia. The closest town to Brdovec is neighboring Zaprešić on the east. Demographics According to the 2001 Croatian census, 2001 census, there are 10,287 inhabitants, 92% which are Croats. They ...

The hydrological parameters of the Sutla are regularly monitored in Croatia at Zelenjak. The division of the Sutla/Sotla basin area between Croatia and Slovenia is inconsistent in sources; Croatian sources claim either or , while Slovenian sources claim either or .

Kozje Park Kozje (, ) is a small town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Kozje. The settlement of Kozje lies in the centre of the municipality, from Celje, from Ljubljana, and from Rogaška Slatina. It is the main settlement of the ...

(Slovene: ), established in 1981 as Trebče Memorial Park (), is located in Slovenian territory west of the Sotla. It covers of the landscape of the

Kozje Hills Kozje (, ) is a small town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Kozje. The settlement of Kozje lies in the centre of the municipality, from Celje, from Ljubljana, and from Rogaška Slatina. It is the main settlement of the ...

(), including

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

s along the Sotla. It is the habitat of over 120 bird species and of about 950

higher plant Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes (, ) or collectively tracheophyta (; ), are plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified tissue ( ...

species. The earliest known mention of Sutla was in 1028, as ''Zontla''. The name is pre-Slavic in origin and comes from ''*Sǫtъla''. The root ' does not have a known meaning.

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* {{Authority control Rivers of Styria (Slovenia) Rivers of Croatia International rivers of Europe Croatia–Slovenia border Border rivers